The first four episodes of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 3 are now streaming on Prime Video and they finally reveal — early on in an Episode 1 First Age flashback — how Galadriel (Morfydd Clark) met and fell in love with her husband, Celeborn (Jamie Campbell Bower).

**Spoilers for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 3 Episodes 1-4, now streaming on Prime Video**

After a cold open that reveals that Sauron (Charlie Vickers) still has not yet figured out how to forge the One Ring in Mordor, The Rings of Power goes back thousands of years in the past to the First Age. A handsome Elf warrior easily dispatches an orc at the end of a battle and then attends a glittering celebration in the woods. However, he seems uneasy with the mirth and leaves to take fresh air. Then, when he is away from the party, he sees a beautiful young woman dancing alone in the brambles. When she accuses him of staring at her, he counters it’s odd to dance alone. Galadriel then reveals she was practicing sword-fighting. Celeborn then proposes they spar. If she draws blood from him, he’ll reveal his name.

What follows is a dreamy flirtatious fight sequence that evokes the Wushu of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, but in Middle-earth.

“It’s beautiful. It was a joy, it was such fun to do,” Jamie Campbell Bower said when the cast of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power visited DECIDER HQ recently. “I mean, we had also weeks of dance training as well, which is a very humbling experience for somebody who loathes dancing in public. To sort of like join the show and be like, ‘Hi, I’m Jamie. Let’s boogie.’ It’s definitely like a thing. But it was awesome.”

Campbell Bower revealed that it took between four to five weeks to rehearse that sequence. Even the smallest of movement came under scrutiny in that time.

“It was really helpful, as well, to learn how to move like an Elf and how you’re gonna be fighting like an Elf, as well,” he said, before teasing his character’s role in the rest of the season. “Obviously not to jump ahead too much, but that kind of shifts for him, sort of Episode 4 onwards. There was a definite discussion with regards to that.”

Another major topic of conversation? The very nature of Celeborn and Galadriel’s romance. Tolkien fans know that by the time the Third Age rolls around, Celeborn and Galadriel have built Lothlórion into the idyllic land of their wistful First Age dreams. In The Fellowship of the Ring, they live in glorious treehouses and offer sanctuary to Frodo and his friends after their horrible encounter with the Balrog. But how did they fall so quickly for one another — they get engaged literally after meeting! — and how will they manage to reunite in a war-torn Middle-earth where Celeborn is supposedly dead?

“I feel like with Galadriel and Celeborn, it’s like a meeting of hearts and minds, you now? And Charlie [Vickers] and I have been talking about this for…”

“Years,” Charlie Vickers interjected.

Campbell-Bower grabbed him and laughed. “For years now!”

“You know, we’re talking about love existing in this sort of like cosmic space, this connection existing in this cosmic space,” Campbell Bower said. “And I think that we find each other in that world where the walls are down, you know? The barriers are down and it’s a beautiful space for us both to exist and…”

Campbell Bower then got straight to the point. “You know, she’s so fierce and so awesome, you know, like it’s kind of game over for him,” he said laughing.

Ultimately Galadriel isn’t able to knick Celeborn, but he’s able to slice off a lock of her legendary hair. Galadriel tells him to keep it before the two dance, for real, among their fellow Elves and promise their souls to each other the next morning.

The Rings of Power then cuts to Galadriel fighting off orcs and grimy mortals in the Second Age. The dream of Lothlórion is dashed, for now. But if you make it through the first four episodes of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 3, you’ll know that Galadriel may yet have reason to hope for her happily ever after with Celeborn…

The next two episodes of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power will be streaming on Wednesday, November 18 on Prime Video.